Program areas at Lakewood Health System
Hospital and clinics -Lakewood Health System (the organization) operates a 25-bed critical access hospital providing inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and other specialty Health care services, including a 10-bed geriatric behavioral Health unit in staples, Minnesota. The organization also operates rural Health clinics located in staples, motley, pillager, eagle bend, and browerville, Minnesota. Physicians, physician's assistants, and nurse practitioners provide clinic patients with primary care and other Health care services. In addition, the organization operates a dermatology clinic in sartell, minnesota.the organization provided for 3,554 inpatient hospital and swing-bed days, 178 icu days, 2,352 inpatient geriatric behavioral Health unit days, 97,886 medical and mental Health rural Health clinic visits and 10,705 dermatology clinic visits.
Senior services -the organization operates a 100-bed, medicare-certified skilled nursing facility in staples, Minnesota, that provides long-term and rehabilitative care to residents. In september 2021, 13 beds were put on layaway status, reducing the total skilled nursing beds in service from 100 to 87. In addition to skilled nursing care, the organization also operates home Health care and hospice programs to provide nursing care and assistance at the patient's residence. Assisted living and independent living facilities operated by the organization, located in staples, Minnesota, provide combinations of health-related and supportive services for tenants. The organization provided for 27,403 resident days in the nursing home and 812 assisted living unit rented months.